Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant

The Smoking Gun ^ | 7 Apr 2014

[mandaladon]

APRIL 7--When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant.

That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device.

The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in for a second term. He was seated in front of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two rows behind Beyonce and Jay Z, and about 20 feet from Eric Holder, the country’s top law enforcement officer.

As head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder leads an agency that once reported that Obama’s inauguration guest also had La Cosa Nostra contacts beyond Gotham, and engaged in “conversations with LCN members from other parts of the United States.”

The former mob snitch has become a regular in the White House, where he has met with the 44th president in the East Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the Oval Office. He has also attended Obama Christmas parties, speeches, policy announcements, and even watched a Super Bowl with the First Family (an evening the man has called “one of the highlights of my life”). During these gatherings, he has mingled with cabinet members, top Obama aides, military leaders, business executives, and members of Congress.

[muir_redwoods]

Dullton ratted out the Mob? Problem solved. And, an open slot at MSLSD

[TigersEye]

Nice to know that the FBI protects its informants. /s

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

He’s gotta be dieing of something. Dude looks like Steve Jobs did before he died.

[ExNewsExSpook]

No kidding...wonder how many Secret Service agents Barack and Eric are going to assign to Al’s personal protection detail?

Obviously, the disclosure of this information is no accident. Did someone at Justice (or the White House) decide that Al’s usefulness was over, or did folks at the FBI—who had the job of “handling” their CI for decades—decide a little payback was in order?

[GraceG]

So he traded in his bullhorn for this:

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

This is funny because my father was a cop in New york city in the 60s and 70s and he said Al when he was a kid would always hang out in the station. I tell people that and they don’t believe me. Well here you go, he was working for the FBI, he liked to play cop.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I wonder if he ever watched the movie "Goodfellas" and the Stacks Edwards scene...Lawd have mercy!

[Fitzy_888]

Agreed.

And...I’d bet the good reverend Al’s service started with himself falling in an FBI honey trap.

Later paid for the same information, with the threat that if exposed he’d claim it was racist over zealous pursuit.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

First of all...he does not need street cred anymore.

Secondly his defenders will just say he was screwy ng over the Italian mobsters to protect the black record in artists who wet being victimized.

But we all know the FBI had something on him....he was dirty and he flipped to being a snitch to save his own fat ass....and then he ran buck wild for 30 years and became rich.

[RedMonqey]

Ha HaHaHaHa

MSNBC has got it’s very own ‘COINTEL” type snitch in it’;s very own lineup.

The irony is tooooooooo rich!!!

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I’m cool with it as long as we see a RICO indictment on the president and his men . . .

I’m sure that is why he was doing it . . . aren’t the rest of you? /sarc

[Bulwinkle]

Here’s a piece that fills in the blanks, NYT 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/nyregion/a-19-year-old-fbi-videotape-keeps-pulling-sharpton-back-to-the-past.html

[Lil Flower]

Oh snap! Al be workin for da man ha ha ha
Wonder how that will effect his street cred being he’s a snitch ha ha

[TurboZamboni]

The Agony of Repeat: Al Sharpton Literally Repeats Obama Verbatim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sv_2c-E35c

[peeps36]

Al saved his own fat ass by becoming a rat for the Feds. They were going to arrest him for cocaine or diddling little boys so he became their snitch. Al had the choice of being a man or being a dirty rat. It was an easy decision for him to become the fat rat bastard he always was.

[TexasCajun]

At one point before he was “flipped,” Sharpton participated in a mob scheme to create a business front that would seek a share of lucrative Con Edison set-asides intended for minority-owned businesses. That deal, which involved garbage collection contracts, cratered when the power company determined that Sharpton’s silent partner was Genovese captain Matthew “Matty the Horse” Ianniello. Details of the Con Ed plot emerged at a federal criminal trial of Ianniello and his business partner Benjamin Cohen. It was Cohen, who worked across the hall from Spring Records, who recruited Sharpton for the mob garbage gambit.

[TexasCajun]

The existence of the other 1983 videotape showing Mr. Sharpton listening to the undercover agent offering cocaine and saying at one point ''I hear you'' was disclosed in articles in Newsday several years later. Law enforcement officials later told The New York Times that while Mr. Sharpton could not be prosecuted for what he said on the tape, they had bluffed him shortly after the tape was made into believing that he faced charges and so persuaded him to become a federal informant. They said he provided information about meetings held in the basement of Danny Pagano's father, Joseph, also reputed to be a mobster, information that led to the planting of a court-authorized listening device there. Joseph Pagano died before any charges were filed.

[Servant of the Cross]

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